Jade Manns – A Performance for 5 Dancers

Our current artist in residence Jade Manns has been working with a group of performers rehearsing a dance performance for the duration of her residency. Come see the fruits of their labor during this free one day only performance!

Performance Description

Through the carefully constructed sequencing and layering of visual and sonic material, this work-in-progress examines the role of images in the movement of history, and their role in both making sense of and influencing our world. The work engages with an archive ranging from the first recorded human works of art in the animal-centric prehistoric Chauvet cave paintings, to modern day advertising, political propaganda and viral imagery. Translated into highly sculpted physical tableaus and warped idiosyncratic movement, these images rapidly shift and rearrange forming a dense panorama of shapes and sounds.

Performers: Kalliope Piersol, Noa Rui-Piin Weiss

Sound: Derek Baron

Bio

​​Jade Manns is a dancer, choreographer and co-founder of the artist-run performance space PAGEANT in New York. Her work has been shown at Draftwork at Danspace Project (NYC), Movement Research at the Judson Church (NYC), Sundays on Broadway at Weis Acres (NYC), The Brooklyn Rail, Singing in Unison (NYC), New Dance Alliance Performance Mix Festival (NYC), The Provincetown Dance Festival (Truro Center for the Arts, MA) and PAGEANT (NYC). It has been supported by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (Individual Project Grant 2016, 2017) and New Dance Alliance’s Satellite Residency and the NYU Production Lab.

As a performer Jade has worked with artists such as Evvie Allison, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Phoebe Berglund, Boychild, Sharleen Chidiac, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Ayano Elson, Luis Lara Malvacias, Owen Prum, Alexa West, Cherrie Yu, and Rosario Zorraquin among others.

In April of 2022 Jade founded the independent dance and performance space PAGEANT with Sharleen Chidiac, Lili Dekker, Owen Prum and Alexa West. She recently collaborated with Cathy Weis on the curation for the fall 2023 season of Sundays on Broadway.

Jade is an alumna of the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance and holds a BFA in dance and minor in performance studies from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

IG: @jademanns
Website: jademanns.com